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Functional integration : action and symmetries /
Functional integration successfully entered physics as path integrals in the 1942 Ph. D. dissertation of Richard P. Feynman, but it made no sense at all as a mathematical definition. Cartier and DeWitt-Morette have created, in this book, a fresh approach to functional integration. The book is self-c...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge :
Cambridge University Press,
2006.
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| Colección: | Cambridge monographs on mathematical physics.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | Functional integration successfully entered physics as path integrals in the 1942 Ph. D. dissertation of Richard P. Feynman, but it made no sense at all as a mathematical definition. Cartier and DeWitt-Morette have created, in this book, a fresh approach to functional integration. The book is self-contained: mathematical ideas are introduced, developed, generalised and applied. In the authors' hands, functional integration is shown to be a robust, user-friendly and multi-purpose tool that can be applied to a great variety of situations, for example: systems of indistinguishable particles; Aharonov-Bohm systems; supersymmetry; non-gaussian integrals. Problems in quantum field theory are also considered. In the final part the authors outline topics that can be profitably pursued using material already presented. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (xx, 456 pages) : illustrations |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780511261428 051126142X 051125962X 9780511259623 0511260857 9780511260858 9780511535062 0511535066 9780521143578 0521143578 1107170532 9781107170537 1280749407 9781280749407 9786610749409 661074940X 0511320418 9780511320415 0511260296 9780511260292 |